Bill of Materials

This is a summary of the hardware components required to assemble the Sionna Research Kit. The exact choice of the RF components such as the cables is not critical and other components might work as well. You can find a more detailed list of components in the Ettus OAI reference architecture.

Computing Platform

• NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin Developer Kit (64GB)

• Power supply (included)

• M.2 NVMe SSD for additional storage

• An Ubuntu 22.04 or 24.04 host system is required to flash the Jetson board

RF Components

• Ettus USRP B210 Kit (other USRP models might work as well)

• USB 3.0 cable (included)

• SMA cables:

  • 8x SMA-SMA cable 50cm

  • 4x PigTail Kabel SMA - MHF4, 15cm (required for the Quectel modem)

• RF attenuators:

  • 1x 40dB attenuator BW-S40W2+ or 1x 20dB attenuator BW-S20W2+

• RF splitters:

  • 1x 4-way splitter ZN4PD1-63HP-S+

  • 1x 2-way splitter ZN2PD2-50-S+

Note

The Ettus B205 USRPs can be used as well, but they only support single antenna experiments, i.e., no MIMO experiments are possible.

User Equipment

• Quectel 5G RM520N-GL 5G Module

• M.2 to USB adapter

• Programmable SIM cards

• SIM card programmer

• Host PC with USB 3.0 port; ideally with Ubuntu 22.04 or 24.04

Optional Components

• RF shielding box for over-the-air testing (Faraday cage)

• Additional antennas for over-the-air testing

• Spectrum analyzer for signal analysis and debugging

• Second Ettus USRP B210 for software-defined user equipment (see Software-defined End-to-End 5G Network)